Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
Glenn Kay
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 1613744226
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films—from 1932's White Zombie to the AMC series The Walking Dead—this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema’s most popular and terrifying creations. Fans will learn exactly what makes a zombie a zombie, go behind the scenes with a chilling production diary from Land of the Dead, peruse a bizarre list of the oddest things ever seen in undead cinema, and immerse themselves in a detailed rundown of the 25 greatest zombie films ever made. Containing an illustrated zombie rating system, ranging from "Highly Recommended" to "Avoid at All Costs" and "So Bad It’s Good," the book also features lengthy interviews with numerous talents from in front of and behind the camera. This updated and expanded second edition contains more than 100 new and rediscovered films, providing plenty of informative and entertaining brain food for movie fans.
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quickly control of Zucco. The only problem is that Bruce forgotten. now needs human hearts to survive, so Zucco makes him dig up the graves of the recently dead The Mad Ghoul (1943) The 1940s: Laughing at the Zombies . . . and an Early End? 19 Revenge of the Zombies (1943) Revenge of the Zombies, also known as The Corpse Vanished in the United Kingdom, was another Monogram quickie (perhaps cobbled together after the success of I Walked with a Zombie earlier in the year), this one starring
more than one hundred years previous. Nationalist sentiment erupted once again in guerrilla warfare and bloodshed. A major uprising in 1918 was extinguished by the U.S. Marines, who in the process killed over two thousand revolutionaries. Yet another tragic event occurred in 1929, when U.S. Marines opened fire on more than ten Haitian demonstrators, killing them. U.S. forces finally pulled out of the country in 1934. (Ironically, during their stay the U.S. military had trained locals in warfare.
chosen retreat is merely a front for evil scientist Dr. Storm (played by veteran actor Michael Gough), who performs something similar to a lobotomy on his youthful guests, turning them into zombies whom he commands via control panel. Surprisingly, Gough uses his switches and knobs to make the zombies work out in tight clothing at a gymnasium on his estate. At least he’s a doctor who’s concerned A lengthy rest in ice has done little for the disposition of a thawed zombie in Horror Express. ©
back. Readers would be further alarmed by Seabrook’s own descriptions of the voodoo practitioners responsible for zombies as “blood-maddened” and “sex-maddened” and by his claim that he visited the supposed zombies and confirmed their authenticity. It is only in the last paragraph of the section that Seabrook all too briefly suggests that drugs causing a lethargic coma may have been responsible for the zombies’ condition. He follows it up by citing an odd Haitian law stating that the burial of a
of the zombie stunt man, afraid that it might melt underwater, than about the real sharks that roamed free in that area. They hired a shark trainer who brought the big one you see in the movie. My father, animalist at heart, said he felt bad for the poor old fish, who was often punched by the trainer to keep it calm for the shooting. What kind of budgets was he given to work with on his films, in comparison with American horror films and other Italian productions? How long were the shooting
